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SUBMITTER: Sreekar R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4763173 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sreekar Rachakonda R Huang Guohualing G Yasuda Mika M Quan Rui-Chang RC Goodale Eben E Corlett Richard T RT Tomlinson Kyle W KW
Scientific reports 20160223
Rising global demand for natural rubber is expanding monoculture rubber (Hevea brasilensis) at the expense of natural forests in the Old World tropics. Conversion of forests into rubber plantations has a devastating impact on biodiversity and we have yet to identify management strategies that can mitigate this. We determined the life-history traits that best predict bird species occurrence in rubber plantations in SW China and investigated the effects of surrounding forest cover and distance to ...[more]